[Hospitalization facilities required for quality care of lung cancer patients].

The purpose of this study was to determine whether good-quality care for patients with lung cancer can be delivered without a full hospitalization unit. Our study included all consecutive untreated lung cancer patients admitted over a two-year period. The following criteria were analyzed retrospectively: residence, age, sex, histology, staging, treatments, administrative data during the first 6 months of treatment, place of death, and duration of last stay before death in the unit.

[A case report of bronchial cysticercosis].

Cysticercosus cellulosae is usually located in muscles, subcutaneous tissues, brain and eyes. The authors reported a rare case of bronchial cysticercosis in a 20-year-old man. The only clinical signs were hemoptysis.

[Hospital information systems ineffectiveness in costing ambulatory chemotherapy in pulmonary oncology].

The real cost of medical consumption was compared with the proportion of medication consumption of (the) GHM n(o) 681 (homogeneous group of patients, chemotherapy for cancer in day care) in the French case mix system (PMSI). For those patients in our thoracic oncology unit (Sainte-Marguerite Hospital, Marseille, France), the real medication cost was calculated from prices paid by the hospital, then compared to the expected expenditures for the medication consumption of the GHM 681, i.e.

[Panhypopituitarism secondary to pituitary metastases].

Background: Hypophyseal metastatic localizations are uncommon and rarely the first expression of a primary cancer. We report an exceptional case revealed by panhypopituitarism and diabetes insipidis.

Case Report: Brain MRI visualized an intra- and suprasellar tumoral formation found to be a cribiform adenocarcinoma.